Authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, allege Meta's illegal use of copyrighted materials to build AI models.

Meta allegedly used copyrighted journals, books and other materials from the LibGen dataset to train its Llama AI models.

For all the talk of freedom, Mr Zuckerberg’s video was another example of the capture of American business by the bullying incoming president. Mr Trump has called Facebook an “enemy of the people” and threatened to ensure that Mr Zuckerberg “spends the rest of his life in prison”.

Fact-checking firms that teamed with Meta are refuting CEO Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion linking their work to censorship.

The European Commission on Wednesday dismissed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that European Union (EU) laws and regulations on online content amount to censorship of social media platforms.